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Didier Dumerjean

for Human Rights & Global Justice (Human Rights & Translation), Harlem Educational Activities Fund (Board Member), Aspen Institute (Socrates Fellow - Thought... View Details

10 Mar 2017
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the CEO, and ideally I become the COO over the course of the process if I hire the right director. And what I mean by that is the producer starts out with the original idea, puts together the whole team, so it starts out with the idea, in... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

Portrait Project

Brooke-Logann Williams

food was being thrown into the garbage. I never forgot my running sneakers again. Becoming accustomed to evading rats was one thing, but we could never accept the sight of children in the adult prison, a place infamous for its violence and View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

different.” Have the Right Mindset From talking with HBS alumni, I learned about many cases in which people seemed to rush headlong into start-ups, hoping primarily to make a lot of money fast. That could lead them to ignore what seemed... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2004
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Safari Beauty

and caused many of us, especially those with children, to showcase the knowledge we’d gained from watching The Lion King. Our guides, and guidebooks, explained how the prides — the groups they live in — work: The males can copulate some... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality; Personal Services

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

therefore a tendency toward silence—is over-determined by both the general nature of humans and the specific realities of the modern economy. Even from an evolutionary point of view, it seems we're all hard-wired to overestimate rather... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

instruction manual to follow for guaranteed results. Also, performance gains won't show up instantaneously. In a learning mode, it's awkward. It's a transition, or we hope it is anyway, because there is no guarantee we are doing the right... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Sep 2015
News

3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)

Video Embed How “the human fly” saved Newman from a cold call. I wasn’t unique as a kid. In small-town Georgia, all the guys did sound effects. We’d swap them like baseball cards: Show me how to do a finger whistle, and I’ll show you how... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

Chung says. "I think it's because they thought they were being compensated for past performance. The thinking is, 'Hey, I must be doing something right thus far. I think I may be overworking, so maybe I should slack off.'" An unintended... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

01 Dec 2017
News

The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)

and everyone, literally everyone, was asking him to be their tech cofounder to start a business (that's a common thing at HBS too when you're technical) and 2) While at Bridgewater, he had used SharePoint to create something that nontechnical employees could use to... View Details

Portrait Project

Mike Contillo

remains intact. Before my grandfather lost his voice from ALS, he called me at 3:00 a.m. because he didn’t want me to pick up. I still have his voicemail: “Remember when we watched Mister Rogers together?Soon, I won’t be able to talk.... View Details

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

the right questions, and taking a broad view all are important skills. You also can enhance your abilities by watching movies. This may seem like odd advice, but consider this: talented actors give us a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

06 Dec 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean

because of—the challenge: “It was basically a small manufacturing company but with an output of one product each time, because every unit we process is unique,” he says. “With each garment, there are 20 opportunities for us to screw up—maybe we didn’t schedule the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; career; life experiences; dry cleaning; leadership; music; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

For sports fans, this time of year is like a chocolate addict's free pass to Willy Wonka's factory. Horse racing's Triple Crown. The National Basketball Association and National Hockey League championship playoffs. And next up, the most View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

January 1992 (Revised December 1994)
Background Note

Note on E-Mail and Privacy: U.S. Law and Company Policies

By: Lynn S. Paine

Describes the legal landscape of employee privacy as it applies to e-mail interception: the various legal theories on which a privacy claim might be based and proposed federal legislation relevant to the subject. Also describes the policies companies like UPS,... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Information; Rights; Government Legislation; Internet and the Web; Interpersonal Communication; Ethics; Theory; Policy; Employees

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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

It’s good to bring the core financial skills but boards these days are also looking for expertise on how to navigate economic uncertainty, capital allocation, cybersecurity, digital transformation and AI, and all things talent and human... View Details

03 Feb 2016
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How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

the right coaching in order to help to achieve a high self esteem...” Having inspired the question in the title, Joel then seemed to answer it by saying, “I think the answer lies in the demands of the role you hoped they’d fill. As a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two-... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Marc Ricks

my family and friends. After reading the above, you might conclude that I'm doomed to suffer an early nervous breakdown from a life of all work and no play. The truth is that I savor my time watching a game at Yankee Stadium, reading The... View Details

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